May 26, 2007

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    A Baffled Reader

    A reader this morning commented on my first Xanga entry (July 20, 2002):

    "To set one up (which I have not done because I don't want anyone to know what I think)," ... William Safire regarding "blogs".

    I still don't know what you think.  Yet ... I try, try, try.

    Here's one thing that I think-- today-- based on my "Hate Speech for Harvard," on "Devil in the Details" (Log24, May 18 and 23), and, more recently, on

    1. last evening's PA lottery number 005,
    2. the I Ching hexagram of the same number, and
    3. the New Yorker issue linked to at the end of the previous entry:
    Revised New Yorker cover from 5/21/07
    Revised version of the
    New Yorker cover of 5/21/07
    Commentary on the cover
    by the PA lottery
    on 5/25/07
    in the form of the
    evening number, 005.
    In the I Ching, this
    is the number of

    HSU:
    WAITING
    (NOURISHMENT)

    See also the previous entry
    and Natalie Angier's sneer
    at a politician's call for
    prayer, which, she
    said, involved the
    "assumption that prayer is
    some sort of miracle
    Vicks VapoRub."

    Detail from the

    5/21/07 New Yorker:

    Detail, New Yorker cover, 5/21/07

     THE IMAGE

    Hexagram 5: Waiting (Nourishment)

    Clouds rise up to heaven:
    The image of WAITING.
    Thus the superior man
    eats and drinks,
    Is joyous and
    of good cheer.

    AMEN.